Sources: ACT Government Chief Minister and Treasury Directorate (Canberra) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Chief Minister of Australia's Capital Territory (ACT), Andrew Barr, has announced that, as promised, his government had introduced amendments to the Holidays Act 1958 that will see Easter Sunday become an official public holiday in the ACT alongside public holidays on Good Friday and Easter Monday, effective for the 2016 annual list of non-working public holidays in Australia's Capital Territory (ACT). [full story]